A What-Minded Professor?
Driving to work today, I was daydreaming at a traffic light (no, not quite like Jackson Browne’s The Pretender) and kind of abstractly thought of absent-minded professors forgetting where they lived and such. Probably because I was near the University.
Since we are now fond of saying that Uncle Al (Einstein) was likely on the spectrum, should the term be, “Autistic Minded Professor?”
Just a thought…
[edit: reminder to self: learn how to spell 'Einstein']
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May 30th, 2006 at 10:28 am
I’m trying to think if that is a better term than “nutty professor”…….
May 30th, 2006 at 11:06 am
When I was growing up, that’s what I was called: absent minded, head in the clouds, and so on. In a way it’s good to have a more specific label.
May 30th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
My favourite describe of Einstein is Dennis Overbye’s, “Einstein’s image as an absent-minded, sockless dustball wandering around in a world of his own”*
I just mailed off my MSc Report to the graduate school for their review! w00t! Already got the ‘absentminded” part down here…
andrea
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/24/nyregion/24EINS.html?ex=1398139200&en=35cf0952deda2ab5&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND